spell check

[Martin Pearson]

Lynn, my English is bad as well but I just hope people don’t notice!!

Your spelling can’t be that bad if it has taken you until now to ask this question, when I type half of what I write comes up in yellow or is changed for me as I type !!!

[Richard Urquhart]

martin me too
my spelling is so bad its rare im even given a suggestion for the word im spelling as its so bad

rich
must add the spell checker has been a great help

rich

[Martin Pearson]

Rich, when I was at college a few years ago one of my tutors told me not to rely on the spell checker to much.

Apparently she had written a report for either the MOD or the Government covering the Gulf war. Can’t remember now exactly who it was for but I do remember it was quite important and was read by a lot of people. Trouble was she had written Golf war all the way through the document and as the spell checker didn’t pick it up then she sent it off as it was.

[Robert Lambie]

i think the checker has always been US English but nobody really noticed because it wasn’t automatically prompting us.
if you click the don’t check spelling check box it will turn it back to the old way i think. i.e. you don’t need to have it continually checking text as you type.
i have a couple of niggles myself with it but that should be sorted soon, so ill ask for the checker to be changed to UK English if it is available. cant see why not though. 😀

[Rob H]

your post just made me giggle lynn…. i did a job last month on a shop n did a full spell check twice to double check n after fitting all graphics to the said shop , the owner had loads of people saying that there is a mistake on your window????(at least people was looking) so it turned out that i spelt off license instead of off licence!!!!! american spell checker on my comp ….ha ha (chat.)

[David Lowery]

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

I put in the word pavement and it changed it to sidewalk 😀